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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 3.67
অঙ্গোপাঙ্গ অস্ত্র করে স্বকার্যসাধন ।
‘অঙ্গ’–শব্দের অর্থ আর শুন দিয়া মন ॥ ৬৭ ॥
āṅgopāṅga astra kare sva-kārya-sādhana
‘aṅga’-śabdera artha āra śuna diyā mana
His plenary parts and associates perform the work of weapons as their own specific duties. Please hear from me another meaning of the word “aṅga.”
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The Lord’s plenary parts and associates perform the work of weapons.
They carry out this work through their own specific duties.
The reader is invited to hear another meaning of the word “aṅga.”
Compassion and urgency. The holy name is offered for the age; divine love moves outward toward others.
The mood of Ādi 3 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
He has described bodily symptoms in Lord Caitanya that are visible only in the person of the Supreme Lord, and he has proved that Lord Caitanya appeared with His personal associates — Śrī Nityānanda, Advaita, Gadādhara, Śrīvāsa and other devotees — to preach the special significance of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. The appearance of Lord Caitanya is both significant and confidential.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 3
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